Every timea sport gets sold from free to view TV, I miss out.
BSB, WSB, F1 and now MotoGP.
I don't have Sky so now pick through the highlights crumbs. Of course, this is my choice, I could pay for Sky or Eurosport and carry on.

But this time I thought I was actually on the winning side. MotoGP is moving to BT next year. BT Sport is being made available to all BT Broadband customers (over a certain value I think, which BT Infinity includes).

YAY!

Except its on Silverlight or Android. Great.

Is there anyway I can get Android apps, or Silverlight, to work on MythTV / Ubuntu?

Looks like there is, Moonlight. YAY again

In December 2011 Miguel de Icaza announced that work on Moonlight had stopped with no future plans.

I could buy a copy of Windows and either install it, or VirtualBox it. But that seems excessive (although less than Sky). Any better solutions?

nelz wrote:As a non-BT subscriber, it looks like I'll have to start paying for my MotoGP fix from next year.

I’ve seen £15 a month mentioned. No idea whether that will prove to be the case or not but £36 is already going out of our house each month to Sky and even though we are great motorcycle fans there comes a time when you have to say enough is enough. You can’t just keep on spending another £10 a month on this and another £10 a month on that.

No more MotoGP, no more Jules, Toby and Spalding. How long before no more WSBK either.

Watched my first NBA game in years and quietly hopeful that the MotoGP season will be ok too. Not to mention being able to watch races on phone having ridden to a beach if this summer is anything like last.

I've just written a piece on this for LXF182. Why are you using Silverlight 5.0 and not 5.1? Is that a BT Sport thing? I tested with Netflix and all works as it should, on various distros, but I can't test with BT Sport as there is no way for me to subscribe. I don't have Sky or cable and I cannot get an online sub because I use another ISP, which seems more than a little anti-competitive.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

Hi nordle - thanks! I too had come across that fix and it does indeed work. Completely forgot I had posted the comment here.

Apparently, the version issue with silverlight is due to the way that BT Sport works.

Sky's NowTV still doesn't work though with this workaround (or at least I haven't been able to make it work) and so I end up having to dig out a windoze machine, which is inconvenient and silly.

What needs to happen is these big media companies need to start seeing the light and making this type of service work with Linux, as all they are doing is driving people who are prepared to pay to use their service towards illegal streaming sites, which is daft.

nelz wrote:I've just written a piece on this for LXF182. Why are you using Silverlight 5.0 and not 5.1? Is that a BT Sport thing? I tested with Netflix and all works as it should, on various distros, but I can't test with BT Sport as there is no way for me to subscribe. I don't have Sky or cable and I cannot get an online sub because I use another ISP, which seems more than a little anti-competitive.

Yeah, as dombov said, it's BTSport insisting on an older version to work.

Don't suppose your article included anything on Eurosports app?
I'm still tempted because of BSB which I still enjoy more than WSB or MotoGP. Eurosport was good value, £35 for a year, any device. BTSport leaves a bad taste, using one product to leaver another. But as a BT customer already, I have got further in bed with the devil rather than make some sort of consumer stand and bitten my nose off.

One other thing I've noticed, as an Infiinity customer I automatically appear to get BTsport HD, unlike my parents who are using the same software but get BTSport SD over ADSL.
While HD results in a decent picture, I'm quite likely going to have to pay to upgrade my broadband package due to the increase in usage hitting my monthly limits. Which again, they must have factored in to their calculations and how much money they'd throw at procuring the rights.

It will be very interesting to see what happens to the relationship between the public and MotoGP after this. A sport which once commanded the front pages of national newspapers is, in this country at least, slowly fading to obscurity (at a time when we have the most number of Brits competing in over 20years).

2013 was pretty special, Marquez making history on his arrival and ruffling feathers much like Marco Simoncelli did and Rossi before him. Rossi winning again in Assen marked a fantastic summer, it was as if the world was screaming in unison for him to cross the line P1. Certainly had this 16st lump leaking from his eyes a bit.

Fingers crossed 2014 has it's own story to shout about.

A bit OT

The pessimist in me thinks I might be posting back to this thread at some point this year with a "HELP BTSport have broken pipelight!!".

Just pay the money; it's really not that expensive! I'm an F1 head, so last season I subscribed to the cheapest package with Sky I could get, that included the F1 channel. So, I get Sky Entertainments, and all the Sky Sports channels. It's £32 a month, which is really not that expensive. £8 a week is not going to break the bank, and you can charge people when they come round! Say Alex, can we watch the football at yours this weekend, and I'm like, I'm not into football at all, so I won't be watching it, but if you all chip in and give me £2 each, I will consider it. And coffee is £1 a cup too!

With the standard Sky+ box you can record 2 channels at the same time, and using the electronic program guide, you can select to record a program, or the complete series on the hard drive, which is really good, and you can pause live tv.

I think it's worth it just for the F1 channel. Even when the BBC have the live practise sessions, they are not live! I confirmed this when I used to watch it on 301, with the live timing on the internet at F1.com. The 'live' BBC coverage starts just after it has finished in real life which is no good at all. And you get loads of F1 product, documentaries about people in F1, classic races from the past, live press coverages, all sorts.

Plus I get about 300 other channels. I tend to watch mostly F1, Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2 and MTV for the Geordie girls, and the Welsh girls; I love the sound of their accents!